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Albert Tissandier
1839–1906
A restless nineteenth-century mind, he moved easily between architecture, illustration, archaeology, and the early dream of human flight. Best remembered for his work with his brother Gaston, he helped bring science and aviation to a broad public in France.
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Reis in Utah en Arizona De Aarde en haar Volken, 1886
by Albert Tissandier
About the author
Albert Tissandier was a French architect, aviator, illustrator, editor, and archaeologist, born in 1839 and died on September 5, 1906. He is closely associated with his brother Gaston Tissandier, with whom he collaborated on La Nature, a popular French science magazine that helped make scientific ideas more accessible to general readers.
He also played a part in the early history of flight. Alongside Gaston, he is remembered for work connected with ballooning and for helping demonstrate an early electric-powered airship, a striking example of how quickly imagination and engineering were beginning to meet in the late nineteenth century.
His wide range of interests shows up in both his writing and his art. Beyond aviation, he was active in architecture and archaeology, and his illustrations helped document the scientific and technical world he cared so much about.